Weeaide bags filled with love

A very big thank you goes out to everyone who helped with the Weeaide project. Marking our 10th year, we were able to give out more than 1,400 Weeaide bags this Christmas.

We are always moved by the increasing need and are amazingly reassured by the tremendous response from everyone who helped. The Weeaide motto, “treat others the way you would like to be treated yourselves,” is evermore apparent in all of the workers who helped. I should like to thank each person personally and would like to list names, but don’t want to leave out someone who made a difference so rather, I will tell you all how your generosity is always greatly appreciated and totally unexpected.

From the family that decided instead of buying gifts for each other they would work on Weeaide and then brought in 13 filled bags; to the mother and daughter who came several times to help with sheer joy in their hearts while working, and to that same daughter who brought her father the next time to show him how Weeaide worked; to couples who came time and time again with donations and willing hearts and hands to help; to those who not only spent time decorating bags, but who always came back to help; to teachers who encouraged their students to participate; to the Recycling Center who always helps with ribbon, tissue, yarn; to the First Baptist Church who gives us a space for storage, for working and for the help from members; to community leaders that willingly join in to encourage others to help; to Girl and Boy Scout troops that combine their talents and efforts to help; to Intel; to reporters and HCTV personalities who gave of time with stories and to a young reporter who came back with a huge bag of donations; to the women who cut, tirelessly it seemed, all of the fleece scarves; to the grandmothers who knitted hats and more than 200 pairs of mittens; to all of those folks who gladly filled their cars with bags and helped to deliver them; and to my dearest friends who made email lists, gathered supplies, encouraged their friends, brought in neighbors and helped in any way they could; all of you amaze me and my heart is so filled with love for you and your help.